Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy a…
Estate agent's advert: "Bijou flat, deceptively spacious, in an up-and-coming area." What are you most likely to find?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: come, be
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Soft words for hard things: work, firing and the economy and business and advertising» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Estate agent's advert: "Bijou flat, deceptively spacious, in an up-and-coming area."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 agent | compound |
| 2 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advert | compound |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 agent | case |
| 4 | advert | advert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flat | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 flat | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 flat | punct |
| 7 | Bijou | Bijou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 flat | compound |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spacious | punct |
| 10 | deceptively | deceptively | ADV | _ | 11 spacious | advmod |
| 11 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flat | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 area | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 area | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 area | det |
| 15 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 area | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 area | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 area | cc |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 area | amod |
| 20 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flat | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flat | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 flat | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What are you most likely to find?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 find | obj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 7 find | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | find, likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A tiny flat in a run-down neighbourhood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flat | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flat | amod |
| 3 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 neighbourhood | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 neighbourhood | det |
| 6 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 down | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 run | punct |
| 8 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 neighbourhood | compound |
| 9 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A new flat on a building site
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flat | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flat | amod |
| 3 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 site | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 site | det |
| 6 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 site | compound |
| 7 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A huge flat in a rich neighbourhood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flat | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flat | amod |
| 3 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 neighbourhood | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 neighbourhood | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 neighbourhood | amod |
| 7 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A flat full of jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 full | det |
| 2 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 full | amod |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 jewels | case |
| 5 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/t1/